Poll gives Wicker lead over Musgrove

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/19/7

It’s not science, but a recent poll of 600 Mississippi voters shows U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker of Tupelo might do pretty well in a head-to-head Senate race against former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.

Conducted Dec. 10-12 by Research 2000 of Olney, Md., the telephone poll was conducted before former Attorney General Mike Moore took his name out of contention, but its results show Wicker would beat the charismatic Moore and Musgrove, if they were pitted for the Senate race.

The margin of error is 4 percentage points, and black voters may have been under-surveyed. They make up 34 percent of the electorate, says the man who commissioned it.